Moments from 'The Enchanted Garden', 2014

And welcome back next year! Our 5th Anniversary! :)

Sadie - I wish You Godspeed!

Sadie - Sadie - Sadie....where are you now?

My dear dear poet friend

- Sadie from Wyoming -

Sadie from 'Far Away Where the Apples Grow'.....

Sadie, my constant BIG sister....always able to see a bit further than I could...

and Always there, supportive, encouraging, loving

 - and always and forever believing in Love Eternal!

You and Me....

Sisters Eternally....!

 

You were the Master of the words;

I can only Thank You

from the Bottom of my Heart,

for All you have Given me

and Been to me

through all these years

of a most Amazing friendship!

 

 

LETTER TO TONE

 

Long years ago, when we first met

you were someone magical:

an artist, special.  With your brush,

you taught  the meaning of enchantment

and gave life to our fantasies;

and from the land of fjords and forests,

castles and gnomes,

you had some small belief

in the doodles of a week-end poet.

 

Over a divide of sea

we conquered the oceans,

became sisters;

but now, midway in this passage through time,

you say you are stripping away

the skins of all your yesterdays

to follow love, to be more than you are;

and with this, my friend

I wish you Godspeed,

and send you flying to him

on Cupid’s wings.

 

 Sadie Robertson

  11-3-07

 

WHAT A LADY!

WHAT A SISTER!

 

I Thank you for All and Everything!

Till next time we meet.....

 

You titled this painting:

'Entreaty'

 

I know you pointed these out as your favorites:

 

 

'Ra Spirit' (In Norway)

 

'Wishing Tree' (In Transition)

 

'Belgian Night (In Belgium)

 

Thank you, Sadie -

for ALL that you have given me!

 

Performance in my 'Threads of Norns' installation, August 3, 2014

A beautiful performance in my 'Threads of Norns' installation, in Art Sanctuary's Enchanted Garden

with Virginie verdie (dance) and Ingrid Bourgeois (violin)

 

 

 

 



Ref: The creation of the installation 'Threads of Norns'

My own work this year; Threads...(Ephemeral), Planting Branches....(Rejuvenation)...and Painting (Being... Alive)



So - after a rather busy time, of preparing and setting up the exhibition of Art Sanctuary's 'Enchanted Garden' (organizer and curator) -  I thought it is time to present a bit of my own work this year; presently on exhibit at Art Sanctuary - Station 14 (The gallery), and in The Enchanted Garden (outside).
- I will start with what I have come to think of as 'my Outside Canvas'; 'The Enchanted Garden' - A large and beautiful garden - in the heart of Europe, just on the 'border' between the Flemish and the French part of Belgium.
- Coming from Norway, with Magritte being my 'teen age hero', it's an experience with dimensions - and yes, you bet I see that 'Magritte Sky' - it's (Sur)Real! :))

It was the second year of Art Sanctuary's 'Enchanted Garden' - 2012 -
that my mother passed away - suddenly.
Which is when I started my work with the Threads....My mother always always worked with threads... yarns.....knitting....fishing lines....fishing nets....threads...threads....threads... Me, I was a painter, never good at knitting, fishing with nets yes...but never lines....never threads....
And somehow -
About 3 months later...On her birthday that same year (Oct. 27th) I managed to start this:

THREADS:

And then it continued......
'Threads of Thought'....

In 2013 I worked with a Flemish tapestry workshop (again working with threads), transferring several of my paintings into tapestries...and an installation; 'Forest Temple'. (Ref. documentation), dedicated to my mother.

During the autumn and winter of 2013-2014 I continued working with the threads in the forest... now referring to 'Norne-tråder' (i norrøn mytologi er tre norner alltid tilstede når et menneske blir født; Urd, Verdande, og Skuld) - According to Norse mythology three Norns are always present at the birth of a human; Urd, the eldest, spins the thread (of the human life), Verdande is the Norn who measures the thread....and Skuld, the youngest of the Norns, is the one who will cut the thread when the life will end (and, being the youngest, Skuld  also tends to play a bit, sometimes making difficulties/challenges...during the life of the human.)

 

TODAY:
A large 'Room' of Threads...in the forest, twelve trees are the 'pillars'; flickering light through the treetops - the scent of earth, the sky above reflected in the little well below, Urd's well, and her spinning wheel nearby; Spinning the 'Threads of Norns'. A place to sit and contemplate....Life, Nature...Being... (Copyright Tone Aanderaa)

 

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My threads are of jute; to me they symbolize the ephemeral.

(The jute threads will disappear within a relatively short time).

 

PLANTING WILLOWS;

My other work on my 'outside canvas' this year is somehow about the very opposite;

Placing cut branches, normally dead after a short time, in the ground

(when and if this ground and soil will allow it - which it does here!)

is something I have always dreamed of, but never saw the possibility of where I lived in Norway (too much rock, not enough suitable soil).....

 

Doing a necessary cutting of several willows autumn 2013 'donated' a huge pile of branches to this dream of mine.

And so, I started putting branches in the ground, not sure what to believe...would or would they not come to life  - again?

It was a VERY interesting Spring!

Rejuvenation!

(Selected works:)

 

Forest Chapel

 

Liminal Trail

Arches

 

 

MY PAINTINGS:

(a few selected)
 

My paintings this last year are inspired by my sister's family visiting the garden here last year; in particular my little nieces.

 Being....Alive..

 

'Girl on th Stairs' (Oil on canvas, 60 cm x 70 cm)

(Sold)

 

'Awesome' (Oil on canvas, 50 cm x 60 cm)

(Sold)

(this little girl is also the 'guide' showing the way through the exhibition)

'Blomsterpike' (Oil on canvas, 60 cm x 50 cm)

(Welcomes you back from the garden)

 

'Run- run - run!

(Oil on canvas, 50 cm x 60 cm)

 

'Touch' ('Wishing is an Act of Magic')

(Oil on canvas, 60 cm x 50 cm)

'Madame Automne'

(oil on canvas, 80 cm x 60 cm)

 

High quality prints of the paintings can be ordered here:

Tone Aanderaa Fine Art Prints

Finally, I'd like to share my installation based on several paintings this year;
TEMPLE OF WISHES:

Based on several different paintings this year.

 

And finally:

 

I created the artwork for the two CD's now playing as sound installations in the Enchanted Garden:

Artwork Copyright: Tone Aanderaa

Artwork Copyright: Tone Aanderaa

 

 (All artwork and photos Copyright Tone Aanderaa)
 

The exhibition at Art Sanctuary's Enchanted Garden is open till August 3rd -

see further information: www.art-sanctuary.blogspot.com

 

WELCOME - BIEN VENUE - WELKOM -VELKOMMEN

WELCOME - BIENVENUE - WELKOM June 27 - August 3 2014!

As organizer of, and participating in this most special yearly event;

It is with great pleasure I invite you to the Opening/Ouverture of

'The ENCHANTED GARDEN' - 2014!

 

 

MYTHS and LEGENDS

     stories and tales    

 

This year’s exhibition invites the visitor on a journey of myths and legends, mysteries and wonders; An avenue of cherry trees, apple trees with promises,  winding trails, deep ponds and secret forest rooms, chapels and a labyrinth, threads of destiny, goddesses, and sleeping beauties…

This large and natural garden, situated just near the ‘border’ between the French and the Flemish part of Belgium, hosts a most special International art exhibition;
Art Inspired by, and in Dialogue With, Nature.
Twenty two artists from Belgium, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, and Ukraine, are represented with works in glass, stone, metal, wood, and ceramics, land art, sound installations and music.
 

OPENING CONCERT with Nicky Bendix:

'ArtTracks'

 

- Nicky Bendix will also be releasing 2 CDs, only available at Art Sanctuary:

 - 'Threads of the Nornir' - also experienced as sound installation in a Land Art 'Room of threads' in the forest
(Tone Aanderaa).

Artwork on CD: Tone Aanderaa

 

- 'Healing Garden' - also experienced as a sound installation during the exhibition period.  

Artwork on CD: Tone Aanderaa 

*** I know I say it every year...but THIS year the garden, and the exhibition, seems Truly Enchanted...and ENCHANTING! ***

WELCOME - BIENVENUE - WELKOM!

The exhibition lasts from 27/6 to 3/8, 2014

New painting: 'The Girl on the Stairs'....pondering.....

The painting 'TOUCH' is now ready for exhibition

 

'TOUCH'